Chisholm Trail Author Symposium and Exhibit Opening
Author Rod Beemer will be delivering a multimedia presentation covering Mother Nature’s impact on the Chisholm Trail.
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Mother Nature is always dynamic, never fooled, & sometimes furious
Much hot air has been expelled, ink spilled, and bytes blown over the subject of climate change. There seems to be no end to the debate in sight and the issue of anthropogenic climate change remains uncertain in the minds of many.
Read moreEverybody and everything has a story
Rod Beemer, Bennington, who grew up on a family farm nine miles south of Abilene, started as a writer in the 1960s, quit his occupation as a magazine writer and followed another passion, custom woodworking. Writing never left his blood.
Read morePrairie fires
Nineteenth-century prairie fires were awesome and awful. They were one of Mother Nature’s events that completely mesmerized me during my research for The Deadliest Woman in the West. Before settlers broke the prairie, there was an immense carpet of grass from Canada to the Rio Grande and bordered on the east by the Mississippi River and on the west by the Rocky Mountains.
Read moreLocal author pens new book on Custer
BENNINGTON — A voracious reader from childhood, Rod Beemer remembered the day in 1960 when he purchased an entire set of the Encyclopædia Britannica with his own money.
It was a proud moment until his mother, a teacher, found out how much her 18-year-old son had spent on the multivolume set — nearly $700.
“My mom told me she could have bought the books for half the price,” he said.
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